Dr Zeinab Rekad 🔬🧬🧪
@zeinabrekad.bsky.social
Exploring RNA & RBPs in cancer: from cell edges to the chromatin. Microscopy lover, proteomics newbie. Likes computer sciences, physics & photography. Also an illustrator and graphic designer for Science and Biology (see: @STEMDORADOscimag)
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Change your profile picture to clippy. I'm serious
YouTube video by Louis Rossmann
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Are you a clippy? I am a clippy too
And no it's not about being 'anti-tech' nor against 'progress'. It's about ethics and setting boundaries to the constant violation by big tech thieves of our privacy and personal data.
Would you accept having random people come daily to inventory your house?
And no it's not about being 'anti-tech' nor against 'progress'. It's about ethics and setting boundaries to the constant violation by big tech thieves of our privacy and personal data.
Would you accept having random people come daily to inventory your house?
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Beautiful 😍 ❤️
How does messenger RNA (mRNA) get out of the nucleus to become a protein? Eukaryotic mRNA is packaged, exported, and then translated in the cytoplasm. But how do these steps work? And what are open questions? Check out our new review for our take: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... (1/3)
November 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Beautiful 😍 ❤️
#RNAsky 🤩🤩🤩
Messenger RNA is made in the nucleus before it is exported to the cytoplasm for translation. But how are only correctly made mRNAs chosen and remodeled in the nucleus for export?
Our new paper investigates the nuclear events leading to human mRNA export. www.nature.com/articles/s41.... (1/4)
Our new paper investigates the nuclear events leading to human mRNA export. www.nature.com/articles/s41.... (1/4)
November 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
#RNAsky 🤩🤩🤩
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Soliciting recommendations for 3D printers and lab supply blue prints. Please share and RT.
November 21, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Soliciting recommendations for 3D printers and lab supply blue prints. Please share and RT.
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How English-centric metrics distort global scientific productivity - a nice coverage of our recent paper (doi.org/10.1371/jour...) in @plosbiology.org
www.the-scientist.com/how-english-...
#languagebarriers
www.the-scientist.com/how-english-...
#languagebarriers
How English-Centric Metrics Distort Global Scientific Productivity
New research shows how language and income shape who gets credited for scientific output—and why women and non-native English speakers face persistent gaps.
www.the-scientist.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:05 AM
How English-centric metrics distort global scientific productivity - a nice coverage of our recent paper (doi.org/10.1371/jour...) in @plosbiology.org
www.the-scientist.com/how-english-...
#languagebarriers
www.the-scientist.com/how-english-...
#languagebarriers
Just Woww 🔬🔬🔬🔥🔥🔥
We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji.
It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:
It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:
November 21, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Just Woww 🔬🔬🔬🔥🔥🔥
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My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
New BBSRC funded PhD opportunity in my group with Inspiralis Ltd and @conradn.bsky.social. If you are interested in RNA - protein interactions and RNA modifications check the details below for how to apply. @nrpdtp.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bdzvn4dr
How do RNA molecules shape genome regulation in the nervous system? (AKAY_U26CASE) | Doctoral Training Partnership
This PhD project will investigate how RNA modifications influence the activity of topoisomerase I (TOP1), a crucial enzyme that regulates DNA supercoiling during replication and transcription. Using C...
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Yup 😆
To ask, or not to ask?
🎭 already Shakespear knew: “Before thou clicketh ‘Acquire’, consult thy analyst.”
Doing image analysis?
Check image quality, labels, resolution, metadata with your imaging analyst first — your future self will thank you!
Read more: bit.ly/46mYBL7
#Microscopy #BioImaging
🎭 already Shakespear knew: “Before thou clicketh ‘Acquire’, consult thy analyst.”
Doing image analysis?
Check image quality, labels, resolution, metadata with your imaging analyst first — your future self will thank you!
Read more: bit.ly/46mYBL7
#Microscopy #BioImaging
Bio-Imaging with Shakespeare | LinkedIn
Biweekly takes on bio-image analysis, processing techniques, insight into tools and trade‑offs as well as best practices
bit.ly
November 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Yup 😆
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I'm a longtime fan of Affinity Designer as an affordable Illustrator-killer for figures, and... it's now free?! www.canva.com/newsroom/new...
Highly recommended if you're sick of paying Adobe $. Maybe Canva can buy NPG too and get rid of the OA fees.
Highly recommended if you're sick of paying Adobe $. Maybe Canva can buy NPG too and get rid of the OA fees.
Why we made Affinity free, and how we’ll keep it that way
We’ve made Affinity completely free, empowering professional designers with studio-grade creative software, supported by Canva’s sustainable ecosystem.
www.canva.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I'm a longtime fan of Affinity Designer as an affordable Illustrator-killer for figures, and... it's now free?! www.canva.com/newsroom/new...
Highly recommended if you're sick of paying Adobe $. Maybe Canva can buy NPG too and get rid of the OA fees.
Highly recommended if you're sick of paying Adobe $. Maybe Canva can buy NPG too and get rid of the OA fees.
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I work with large collections of AnnDatas for single-cell work and got tired of opening notebooks for simple operations. Built a CLI tool to handle some common stuff directly from the terminal.
Quick ops: downsample, concat, pseudobulk, QC, metadata export, etc.
github.com/noamteyssier...
Quick ops: downsample, concat, pseudobulk, QC, metadata export, etc.
github.com/noamteyssier...
GitHub - noamteyssier/anntools: a cli-driven anndata toolkit
a cli-driven anndata toolkit. Contribute to noamteyssier/anntools development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I work with large collections of AnnDatas for single-cell work and got tired of opening notebooks for simple operations. Built a CLI tool to handle some common stuff directly from the terminal.
Quick ops: downsample, concat, pseudobulk, QC, metadata export, etc.
github.com/noamteyssier...
Quick ops: downsample, concat, pseudobulk, QC, metadata export, etc.
github.com/noamteyssier...
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Less than a week to go for #CBIAS2025! A few hours left to register, in person in London or online over Zoom (registration deadline on Nov 20th)
Find out all the information at the link below:
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...
Find out all the information at the link below:
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...
Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium 2025
www.crick.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Less than a week to go for #CBIAS2025! A few hours left to register, in person in London or online over Zoom (registration deadline on Nov 20th)
Find out all the information at the link below:
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...
Find out all the information at the link below:
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...
Wowww 🤩🤩🤩
Very excited to present OpenCGChromatin🔥🔥🔥
A new coarse-grained model that probes full chromatin condensates at near-atomistic resolution to reveal the molecular regulation of chromatin structure and phase separation
Brilliantly led by @kieran-russell.bsky.social, with the Rosen and Orozco groups
A new coarse-grained model that probes full chromatin condensates at near-atomistic resolution to reveal the molecular regulation of chromatin structure and phase separation
Brilliantly led by @kieran-russell.bsky.social, with the Rosen and Orozco groups
November 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Wowww 🤩🤩🤩
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Very excited to present OpenCGChromatin🔥🔥🔥
A new coarse-grained model that probes full chromatin condensates at near-atomistic resolution to reveal the molecular regulation of chromatin structure and phase separation
Brilliantly led by @kieran-russell.bsky.social, with the Rosen and Orozco groups
A new coarse-grained model that probes full chromatin condensates at near-atomistic resolution to reveal the molecular regulation of chromatin structure and phase separation
Brilliantly led by @kieran-russell.bsky.social, with the Rosen and Orozco groups
November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Very excited to present OpenCGChromatin🔥🔥🔥
A new coarse-grained model that probes full chromatin condensates at near-atomistic resolution to reveal the molecular regulation of chromatin structure and phase separation
Brilliantly led by @kieran-russell.bsky.social, with the Rosen and Orozco groups
A new coarse-grained model that probes full chromatin condensates at near-atomistic resolution to reveal the molecular regulation of chromatin structure and phase separation
Brilliantly led by @kieran-russell.bsky.social, with the Rosen and Orozco groups
Reposted by Dr Zeinab Rekad 🔬🧬🧪
ERK builds a population of short-lived nascent adhesions that produce persistent edge protrusion and cell migration https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688923v1
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 AM
ERK builds a population of short-lived nascent adhesions that produce persistent edge protrusion and cell migration https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688923v1
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Post 1
As noted yesterday: the in-vitro assay in the 2016 @cp-cell.bsky.social Cell paper from @brangwynnelab.bsky.social (dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.04.047) led to wrong conclusions about NPM1 LLPS in nucleolar assembly.
(see image)
As noted yesterday: the in-vitro assay in the 2016 @cp-cell.bsky.social Cell paper from @brangwynnelab.bsky.social (dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.04.047) led to wrong conclusions about NPM1 LLPS in nucleolar assembly.
(see image)
November 18, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Post 1
As noted yesterday: the in-vitro assay in the 2016 @cp-cell.bsky.social Cell paper from @brangwynnelab.bsky.social (dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.04.047) led to wrong conclusions about NPM1 LLPS in nucleolar assembly.
(see image)
As noted yesterday: the in-vitro assay in the 2016 @cp-cell.bsky.social Cell paper from @brangwynnelab.bsky.social (dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.04.047) led to wrong conclusions about NPM1 LLPS in nucleolar assembly.
(see image)
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Just 4 days until the start of I2K and its 33 totally free image analysis tutorials and events! Please share with your "home networks", especially early career researchers - the videos will be amazing and high-impact no matter how many people attend live, BUT (1/x)
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Just 4 days until the start of I2K and its 33 totally free image analysis tutorials and events! Please share with your "home networks", especially early career researchers - the videos will be amazing and high-impact no matter how many people attend live, BUT (1/x)
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Great work from the lab of @jojdavies.bsky.social
Mapping chromatin structure at base-pair resolution unveils a unified model of cis-regulatory element interactions
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Mapping chromatin structure at base-pair resolution unveils a unified model of cis-regulatory element interactions
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Mapping chromatin structure at base-pair resolution unveils a unified model of cis-regulatory element interactions
Li et al. apply base-pair resolution Micro Capture-C ultra to map chromatin contacts
between individual motifs within cis-regulatory elements and reveal a unified model
of biophysically mediated enhan...
www.cell.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Great work from the lab of @jojdavies.bsky.social
Mapping chromatin structure at base-pair resolution unveils a unified model of cis-regulatory element interactions
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Mapping chromatin structure at base-pair resolution unveils a unified model of cis-regulatory element interactions
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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We discovered a universal scaling law linking copy number and plasmid size, which can be used to predict the PCN of your favorite plasmid! 6/7
July 2, 2025 at 10:12 AM
We discovered a universal scaling law linking copy number and plasmid size, which can be used to predict the PCN of your favorite plasmid! 6/7
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NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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It would be one thing having a "debate" on immigration if people meant they wanted a "debate" based on facts. But what most people seem to mean when they say they want a debate is that is they want us to pretend a bunch of entirely made up bullshit is true.
November 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
It would be one thing having a "debate" on immigration if people meant they wanted a "debate" based on facts. But what most people seem to mean when they say they want a debate is that is they want us to pretend a bunch of entirely made up bullshit is true.
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A tour de force expose of those trying to smother us in anti-science propaganda. Michael Mann and Peter Hotez are leaders in confronting the anti-science crowd. They describe their own experiences and name and shame the organizations and individuals involved and how we can defeat them. Read it. 🧪
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
A tour de force expose of those trying to smother us in anti-science propaganda. Michael Mann and Peter Hotez are leaders in confronting the anti-science crowd. They describe their own experiences and name and shame the organizations and individuals involved and how we can defeat them. Read it. 🧪
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Vous assistez, quasiment en direct à la formation d'un cratère sur la Lune, avec un impact filmé ce matin !
November 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Vous assistez, quasiment en direct à la formation d'un cratère sur la Lune, avec un impact filmé ce matin !
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This work is now out @pnas.org. Result of fantastic collaborations with @so-lets-kilab70.bsky.social and Jason vevea @St Jude. Look out for two cool fluorescent ligands.
November 16, 2025 at 5:11 AM
This work is now out @pnas.org. Result of fantastic collaborations with @so-lets-kilab70.bsky.social and Jason vevea @St Jude. Look out for two cool fluorescent ligands.
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Men, Hirayama, Murata et al. show that misfolded protein aggregates are degraded through #microautophagy, a process mediated by the UBAP1-containing ESCRT-I complex and PTPN23. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
📕 In Cellular Neurobiology collection: rupress.org/jcb/collecti...
#SfN25
📕 In Cellular Neurobiology collection: rupress.org/jcb/collecti...
#SfN25
November 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Men, Hirayama, Murata et al. show that misfolded protein aggregates are degraded through #microautophagy, a process mediated by the UBAP1-containing ESCRT-I complex and PTPN23. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
📕 In Cellular Neurobiology collection: rupress.org/jcb/collecti...
#SfN25
📕 In Cellular Neurobiology collection: rupress.org/jcb/collecti...
#SfN25